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NGC 1934
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NGC 1934 (also ESO 056-SC109, h 2842, GC 1140) is a magnitude +10.1 emission nebula located in the Large Magellanic Cloud in the constellation Dorado. It is part of a larger N44 nebula. The nebula was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecti...
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NGC 1887
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NGC 1887 (also ESO 85-SC59) is a magnitude +12.7 open star cluster located in the Large Magellanic Cloud in the constellation Dorado. The cluster was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at Feldhausen, Claremont, Cape To...
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NGC 1774
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NGC 1774 (also ESO 85-SC26) is a magnitude +10.8 open star cluster located in the Large Magellanic Cloud the constellation Dorado. The cluster was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at Feldhausen, Claremont, Cape Town...
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Cassiopeia A
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An enormous light echo etched in the sky by a fitful dead star was spotted by the infrared eyes of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
An echo has been detected around a star that died 325 years ago in the constellation Cassiopeia. The reverberation implies that the stellar remnant let out a b...
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V404 Cygni
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Title: Zooming in on a sleeping giant: milliarcsecond HSA imaging of the black hole binary V404 Cyg in quiescence Authors: J.C.A. Miller-Jones (1), E. Gallo (2), M.P. Rupen (1), A.J. Mioduszewski (1), W. Brisken (1), R.P. Fender (3,4), P.G. Jonker (5,6,7), T.J. Maccarone (3) ((1) NRAO, (2) UCSB, (...
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NGC 6253
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Title: Lithium Abundances of the Super-Metal-Rich Open Cluster NGC 6253 Authors: Jeffrey D. Cummings, Constantine P. Deliyannis, Barbara Anthony-Twarog, Bruce Twarog, Ryan M. Maderak High-resolution CTIO 4-m/HYDRA spectroscopy of the super-metal-rich open cluster NGC 6253 ([Fe/H]=+0.4...
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Planetary nebula SuWt 2
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Call it the case of the missing dwarf. A team of stellar astronomers is engaged in an interstellar CSI (crime scene investigation). They have two suspects, traces of assault and battery, but no corpse. The southern planetary nebula SuWt 2 is the scene of the crime, some 6,500 light-years from Earth i...
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NGC 1909
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NGC 1909 (also Witch Head nebula, IC 2118, LBN 959, and Cederblad 41) is a magnitude 13.7 reflection nebula located about 900 light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. The reflection nebula is considered to be very old supernova remnant illuminated by the nearby bright supergiant, Rigel, l...
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NGC 299
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NGC 299 (also Lindsay 49, ESO 051-SC 005, and PGC 3517848) is a magnitude +11.7 open star cluster located just under 200,000 light-years away within the Small Magellanic Cloud in the constellation Toucan. The cluter was discovered by the British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch)...
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NGC7635
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NGC 7635, the Bubble Nebula, lies 11,000 light-years away toward the constellation Cassiopeia..
The 10 light-year diameter bubble is created by a bright hot star embedded in reflecting dust. A fierce stellar wind and intense radiation from the star, which likely has a mass 10 to 20 times that of t...
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NGC 7510
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NGC 7510 (also OCL 256) is a magnitude +7.9 open cluster located about 11,400 light-years away in the constellation Cepheus. The open cluster was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Windsor Road in Slough, Berkshire,...
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NGC 1502
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NGC 1502 (also Collinder 45 and OCL 383) is a magnitude +6.9 open star cluster located in the constellation Camelopardalis. The cluster was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Windsor Road in Slough, Berkshire, on the 3...
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NGC 1499
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NGC 1499 (also California Nebula, Sharpless 2-220 and LBN 756) is a magnitude +6.0 emission nebula located about 1000 light-years away in the constellation Perseus. The nebula was discovered by American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard using a 15.24 cm (6 inch) refracting telescope at the Vand...
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HAT-P-11b
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Title: HAT-P-11b: A Super-Neptune Planet Transiting a Bright K Star in the Kepler Field Authors: G. A. Bakos (1,2), G. Torres (1), A. Pál (1,4), J. Hartman (1), Géza Kovács (3), R. W. Noyes (1), D. W. Latham (1), D. D. Sasselov (1), B. Sipocz (1,4), G. A. Esquerdo (1), D. A. Fischer (5), J. A. Johnson (6),...
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Carina Nebula dust pillars
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Carina Nebula dust pillars harbour embedded stars.
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have imaged a giant molecular cloud being shredded by howling stellar winds and searing radiation, exposing a group of towering dust pillars harbouring infant stars, according to a U...
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